Introduction
Nearly six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, the largest extermination campaign ever organised. It is perhaps the darkest page in human history. There have been prophetic references to a number of six million Jews in peril or in danger of being exterminated long before World War II started. In hindsight, those references are eerie.
There is a plan for the future
There have been other prophetic coincidences in history. For instance, the licence plate number of Franz Ferdinand’s car at the time of his assassination referred to the end date of World War I. This is remarkable because this even triggered World War I. Perhaps, history unfolds according to a script.
The following claims have been made before World War II:
- Six million Jews in Russia were suffering from oppression before World War I
- Six million Jews in Europe were suffering from World War I
- Jews and Zionists feared a Holocaust of Jews
- Russia was planning to exterminate six million Jews
- Six million Jews were threatened with extermination
- The Nazis were planning to exterminate six million Jews
The six million figure first emerged in Jewish media because it was the number of Jews living in Russia before World War I. The Jews in Russia suffered from pogroms and a hostile government. The number kept on circulating since then, which is remarkable as the number of Jews that died during the Holocaust was close to six million.
This page is based on materials found on the website Zioncrimefactory.com. The editor appears to believe that the Holocaust (or at the very least, the six million figure) is ‘a hoax planted by Zionist propaganda’. Zioncrimefactory may have used a biased selection of evidence. Perhaps other numbers were circulating. If several numbers were circulating in a similar frequency, which appears not to be the case, this coincidence may not be as remarkable as it seems, based on the information presented here.
1901. Rabbi Wise’s address
American Zionist leader Rabbi Stephen S. Wise said that there are 6,000,000 living, bleeding, suffering arguments in favour of Zionism.
1902. Encyclopedia Britannica
Under its entry on anti-Semitism the tenth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica references six million Jews of Rumania and Russia being systematically degraded.
1905. Zionism could become obsolete
A Jewish preacher declares that if the situation in Russia improves, Zionism could become obsolete.
1905. Pobiedonostzeff resigns
The New York Times claimed on 1 November 1905 that from 1890 to 1902 Pobiedonostzeff, Chief procurator of the Holy Synod, caused 6,000,000 Jewish families to be expelled from Russia.
1906. Dr. Paul Nathan mentions the extermination of 6,000,000 Jews
A Jewish publicist addresses an audience in Germany where he claimed that the Russian Government had a solution for the Jewish Question and that this solution entailed the murderous extermination of 6,000,000 Jews.
Dr. Nathan read to the meeting a circular addressed to the garrisson of Odessa calling upon the soldiers to rise and crush the traitors who are plotting to upset the government of the Czar and to subsitute it for a Jewish empire.
This is great material for anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists who can point at the number of high-ranking Jewish Bolshevik revolutionaries in the Communist Revolution of 1917 and claim that Jewish bankers have been operating behind the scene to make the Communist Revolution succeed.
1911. The American Jewish Committee’s annual report
In the American Jewish Committee’s annual report it is claimed that since 1890 Russia has had a policy to expel or exterminate six million Jews.
1911. Max Nordau claimed that 6,000,000 Jews would be annihilated
Max Nordau, co-founder of the World Zionist Organization together with Theodore Herzl, made a remarkable pronouncement at the tenth Zionist Congress in Basle, Switzerland. He claimed that 6,000,000 Jews would be annihilated.
1914. American Jewish Committee appeal for aid
Shortly after the start of World War I the American Jewish Committee claimed that 6,000,000 Jews in Europe need aid.
1918. At the end of World War I a similar appeal was made
It was estimated that helping the 6,000,000 Jews that suffered from World War I required a capital of $1,000,000,000.
1919. Zionists fear of a Holocaust of six million Jews in Europe
Shortly after World War I Zionists fear that a Holocaust of six million Jews is imminent in Europe.
1919. 6,000,000 souls in Ukrainia and in Poland are threatened by extermination
The population of 6,000,000 souls in Ukrainia and in Poland have received notice through action and by word that they are going to be completely exterminated.
1920. Jewish relief campaign statement
A Jewish relief campaign advertisement stated that 6,000,000 Jews were facing the darkest days ever known in the history of the race.

1921. Massacre threatens 6,000,000 Jews as Soviet power wanes
As the Soviets were on the defensive, Jews in Germany worried about a possible massacre of 6,000,000 Jews in Russia.
1931. Starvation threatens 6,000,000 Jews in Eastern Europe
Six million Jews in Eastern Europe face starvation in 1931.
1936. 6,000,000 Jews were in a position that was neither life nor death
In 1936 Dr. Weizmann’s in his address before the Royal Commission claimed that 6,000,000 Jews were in a position that was neither life nor death. At that time Germany had not occupied any foreign territories yet.
1936. Request to create a Jewish nation in Palestine
The New York Times reported that Zionist groups were lobbying with American Christian leaders, Christian organisations and the British government asking for assistance in the creation of a Jewish nation in Palestine to save the Jews from the European Holocaust.
This was three years before the start of World War II and five years before the extermination camps came into existence.
1939. 6,000,000 Jews in Europe fighting desperately
In 1939 The Evening Independent claimed that 6,000,000 Jews in Europe were fighting desperately against intolerance and despair. World War II hadn’t started, yet.
1939. Coming world war would mean the annihilation of 6,000,000 Jews
In 1939 The Jewish Criterion predicted that the coming world war would mean the annihilation of six million Jews in East and Central Europe.
1940. Nazi victory would mean destruction of 6,000,000 Jews
In 1940 the Jewish leader Nahum Goldmann predicted that if the Nazis achieved victory, 6,000,000 Jews were doomed to destruction.
1943. Nazis were planning to kill 6,000,000 Jews
In 1943 the American Jewish Committee claimed that the Nazis had set in motion a plan to kill 6,000,000 Jews. During 1942 the first reports of the concentration camps had reached the allies.
1944. In 1944 it was estimated that 6,000,000 Jews were killed
Six to eight months before the end of World War II it was estimated that 6,000,000 Jews were killed by the Nazis. Accurate numbers were not available at the time.